Alaskan breeds -- such as Inuit sled dogs, the Eskimo dog and the Greenland dog -- are the only canines with actual American roots, according to DNA analysis. All of these pooches hail from the 49th state and nearby areas.

The Malaysian Conservation Alliance for Tigers (MYCAT) wants the Wildlife and National Parks Department to investigate the origin of five dead tigers whose skins were seized on Saturday.
It said although the skins did not reach the end buyers, the

A genetic study has shown that the ancestors of all of today's domestic cats prowled the Near East. Cats became useful to humans when agriculture started forcing people to protect grain stores from rodents.